Md. Code, Transportation § 7-605
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§7–605.
Official statutory text
(a) The rights, benefits, and other employee protective conditions and remedies of § 13(c) of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, apply to the operation by the Administration of the transit facilities owned or controlled by it and to any contract or other arrangement for the operation of those transit facilities.
(b) (1) If the Administration operates any transit facility or makes any contractual or other arrangement for the operation of any transit facility, the Administration shall do whatever is necessary to give employees of affected mass transportation systems, in accordance with seniority, the first opportunity for reasonably comparable employment in any available nonsupervisory job as to those operations for which they can qualify after a reasonable training period.
(2) This employment may not result in:
(i) Any worsening of the employee’s position from that which he enjoyed in his former employment; or
(ii) Any loss of wages, hours, working conditions, seniority, fringe benefits, or related rights or privileges.
(b) (1) If the Administration operates any transit facility or makes any contractual or other arrangement for the operation of any transit facility, the Administration shall do whatever is necessary to give employees of affected mass transportation systems, in accordance with seniority, the first opportunity for reasonably comparable employment in any available nonsupervisory job as to those operations for which they can qualify after a reasonable training period.
(2) This employment may not result in:
(i) Any worsening of the employee’s position from that which he enjoyed in his former employment; or
(ii) Any loss of wages, hours, working conditions, seniority, fringe benefits, or related rights or privileges.
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